Word: armageddons
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...this mean that Argentina would eventually send troops? Well, not quite. But many neutrality-loving Argentines, whose last shooting war* ended in 1870, took it as an urgent invitation to Armageddon. In Buenos Aires, Communist and nationalist street-corner peace meetings drew crowds; fist fights broke out and scores of arrests were made...
...country was not yet preparing for Armageddon; it was merely trying to win a dirty, small-bore war in Korea. As of last week, before the President sent his message to Congress, even this effort was on a minor scale. For obvious reasons there was no thundering of a war machine: no thundering war machine existed...
...power and strength of America will be on the job at 5 o'clock." The joke going around the Pentagon was: "Louis said we could lick the Russians-he didn't mean the North Koreans." In short, the U.S. was at least partly prepared for a thunderous Armageddon. It was not prepared at all for the North Koreans...
...stay strong? This was a problem for extraordinary judgment, both in matters military and matters economic. Obviously, the nation's strategic air power must not be neglected. The error had not been the continued development of strategic air power, which might continue to forestall an Armageddon. The error lay in failing to maintain a balanced military force, which would also have meant balancing the consuming necessities of that military force with the civilian economy...
...members of the sect called Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Christ's second coming is at hand. Some Witnesses believe the coming is so imminent that they put off marrying or having children until Armageddon signals the final act. Since all governments will soon be overthrown, the Witnesses do their best to ignore governments. They salute no flag, vote in no election, fight in no war. Their work is to bear witness to the coming Christ, and they do the job by doorbell ringing and by pamphlets, portable phonographs, sound trucks and streetcorner speaking. Like the early Christians...